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Building an Accessible Course in myCourses

Brightspace by D2L is 91˿Ƶ’s Learning Management System (LMS), known by staff and faculty as “myCourses”. The following resources are helpful for faculty, teaching assistants and administrators working on designing and uploading course content into myCourses. D2L has published a variety of tools and resources, some of which are curated here, to help you create and maintain an accessible virtual classroom.

Accessibility Checker

Did you know that myCourses has a built-in ? You can use it when creating content in the HTML Editor to catch some of the most common accessibility issues, and receive tips on how to fix them!

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Figure 1: Screenshot of myCourses HTML text editor, with a red circle around the accessibility checker icon [eye with check mark]

Accessible Course Template

D2L has made creating accessible course content easier by having available and ready to be customized to your own content.

Articles

D2L hosts a collection of articles on accessibility in Brightspace (myCourses) on their . A few articles of interest include:

There are many more articles to discover, with the content being regularly updated by D2L. Exploration and discovery are encouraged!

Webinars

D2L offers a few webinars to help with accessibility in myCourses:

Other D2L Resources

  • : Want to learn more about assistive technologies that some students may be using? This website provides video demonstrations that help you understand how assistive technologies work, and the barriers they may encounter in an online learning environment. The has two accessibility audit tools that you can use to test your own content.
  • You can within myCourses to support your own accessibility needs and/or use of assistive technologies.

Resources at 91˿Ƶ


91˿Ƶ is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

For more information about traditional territory and tips on how to make a land acknowledgement, visit our Land Acknowledgement webpage.


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